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The Time a Japanese Noise Musician Destroyed a Venue With a Bulldozer
In 1985, Hanatarash frontman Yamantaka Eye drove an excavator into a Tokyo venue, turning a noise performance into an act…
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Behind the Beat: Inside the Homes Where Hip-Hop Is Made
Raph Rashid’s intimate photographs map the domestic environments where hip-hop producers build influential records, showing how constraint, routine, and personal…
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The Eccentric Soviet Composer Who Conducted a City: Arseny Avraamov and the Sound of a Future That Never Arrived
In September 1922, amid the fifth anniversary commemorations of the October Revolution in the capital of Azerbaijan, a little-known Russian…
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The Australian Afterlife of Elvis Presley
Each year on August 16, Elvis fans gather at a Melbourne cemetery on the anniversary of his death, observing the…
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A Loud Minority? Investigating the Subculture of Audiophiles in Japan
Stories of Japanese audiophiles installing personal utility poles have become legend, but behind the myth is a shrinking, aging subculture…
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Longplayer: One Song, A Thousand Years, No Intermission
A quarter of a century ago, a Celtic punk musician started a performance of a song so absurdly long that…
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How a Forgotten German Expressionist Painting Influenced Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s Berlin Era
Moving to West Berlin, David Bowie and Iggy Pop found unexpected inspiration in German Expressionism, most notably in the form…
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X‑Rays You Can Hear: Soviet Bootleg Music’s Non-Clinical Birth, Death, and Rebirth
During the Cold War, access to music in the Soviet Union was tightly restricted by state censorship. Despite the risks,…
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Documenting Euphoria: Peter J. Walsh’s RAVE ONE and the Rise of UK Rave Culture
Peter J Walsh was an eyewitness to one of the most transformative moments in modern British youth culture: the birth…